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Albatron's GeForce4 Ti4800SE - Page 6

To bring the benchmarks to a
close, we ran a few rounds of Croteam's Serious Sam -The
Second Encounter. This is another popular
application for testing a video card's OpenGL prowess. When the dust settled, the
Albatron Ti4800SE did a fine job holding its own against the
older Ti4600. Even at the highest resolution, the
Ti4800SE posted a solid 86.9FPS.

The Albatron Ti4800SE is a
fine video card that has proven to be competent performer. This card did
a good job at competing with the Ti4600. The bundle
was very complete, and we were pleased by the cooling
solution. Unfortunately, the GeForce 4 product line simply doesn't
fare well when compared to the latest ATi solutions at the
same price point. With that said, it is difficult to
recommend the Albatron Ti4800SE over a Radeon 9500, which
offers better performance, and full DX9 functionality.
We found a Radeon 9500 selling for about $20 less than the Albatron
Ti4800SE's $178 price tag at
www.newegg.com.
The Albatron Ti4800SE is still a fine card, however.
There are still some that are loyal to NVIDIA GPUs and
from what we have seen it is clear Albatron builds a very
fine product. We compared to other Ti4800SEs,
Albatron's product is very appealing, but the simple fact
is there are better alternatives available. We give the
Albatron Ti4800SEa Hot Hardware Heat Meter
Ratingof a 7.0.